The Monumental Plaza de Toros in Mexico City will be the opening venue for the 2014 Red Bull X-Fighters season. These riders will be performing at different venues globally this season, all five of which will be broadcast on Fox Sports 1.

TUNE IN to Fox Sports 1 tonight at 7:00 p.m. EDT, 4:00 p.m. PDT, where 12 of the world’s finest motorcyclists will take to the air, battling head-to-head as they perform breathtaking stunts in front of a crowd of almost 40,000 people.

The floodlit Commercial Bank Grand Prix of Qatar will signal the start of the 2014 MotoGP™ season this weekend, as 21-year-old Marc Marquez looks to begin his defense of the World Championship title he historically won at the first time of asking last year.

This weekend’s race will be the 11th at the desert-based Losail International Circuit, which has been on the calendar since 2004. The track first welcomed the season-opener in 2007 and has hosted an evening race since 2008.

Mercedes GP Executive Director Toto Wolff admits that he would regard it as a failure if Mercedes does not win the 2014 World Championship – although he insists that the team’s advantage is not as big as outsiders might think.

“I don’t see it as a big advantage, to be honest,” he said. “You can see if you have a DNF, you lose points. McLaren is leading the constructors’, So we cannot pause in the whole thing. Yes, we have a little bit of a margin at the moment, and losing that margin now is something that I would consider as a failure.”

This weekend, the racing world remembered the life and career of 72-year old Gary Bettenhausen, who competed in 21 Indianapolis 500s and obtained success in USAC dirt cars from 1966-1993.

Bettenhausen’s 82 USAC National victories earned him a place in USAC’s inaugural Hall of Fame in 2012, according to usacracing.com. His success and involvement in motor racing has spawned a large reaction through the social media world.